We drove down to the superb reserve at Charca Suarez near Motril arriving at 09:30 and made straight for the hide over looking Laguna Blanca, on the walk in we came up with 3 Common Chiffchaffs (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Cetti's Warbler (Ruisenor Bastardo / Cettia cetti), Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto) and Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus).

We started to walk around to the next hide but then I got a call from Juan to say he had found a small, a very small Mediterranean Chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon) back near the hide at Laguna Blanca so I went back quickly so that Juan did not have to hang around. I got some shots and then when Kate and Jim we relocated it and they got shots as well, Juan had a wonder again and we went back into the hide where I got brief views of a male Bluethroat (Pechiazul / Luscinia svecica) and in the air above the hide a rather late European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster) calling as it flew West.

Eurasian Teal (Cerceta Común / Anas crecca).

We spent the next half hour in the hide over looking Laguna T but we did not find anything new so we decided to head out and along the coast to Castell de Ferro where Jim and I walked up to a spot above the beach and photographed a couple of Desert Orange-tip (Colotis evagore). In the same area we found Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii), Swallowtail (Papilio machaon), Small White (Pieris rapae), Black Wheatear (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura) and Sardinian Warbler(Curruca Cabecinegra / Sylvia melanocephala).

European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Común / Merops apiaster).

We returned West along the Autovia passed Charca again and along to Cerro Gordo where we were hoping for the Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius), we managed to see one but it did not land and disappeared after a minute or so. We continued to search for a more cooperative insect but did not find one, we did see a female Blue-rock Thrush (Roquero Solitario / Monticola solitarius), Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and Crested Tit (Herrerillo Capuchino / Parus cristatus) andCommon Kestrel(Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus) before having a coffee and heading back to the hotel.